by OyamO, directed by Timothy Douglas. OH SAY CAN YOU SEE...? is centered about two men and the major social issue of the times: 1. A black baseball player back in the 1880\&##39;s who was the first black man to play briefly on an early major league baseball team just before blacks were barred, by a gentlemen\&##39;s agreement, from playing on any major league team. 2. A white man who was a blackface minstrel performer, performing as a blackface minstrel to raise money so that he could form an entire troupe of blackface minstrels. 3. The turbulent racist times in the 50 or so years after the end of the Civil War. Both men suffered due to the prevailing attitudes of the times, one of them tragically.